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AE7 OGL on Mac
I am using the trial version of AE7 and I like it very much indeed. I downloaded it and am testing at the moment.
I will have to update my Decklink drivers for output to an external monitor, but I know this is an issue so that’s not a problem. I am also going to go through my plugins but I am pretty sure most are ok.
More of a worry however is the lack of support for the high fidelity Open GL effects. When you show the card info it appears thus:
Renderer: ATI Radeon 9800 Open GL Engine
Version: 1.5 ATI-1.4.6
Supported OGL effects are as before, ie lighting and shadows. However the more accurate capabilities are not supported, like Blending Modes, Adjustment Layers, Accelerated effects etc. This contradicts the Adobe site which says that these cards are supported, with the exception of antialiasing and motion blur
How do I update my ATI drivers to get these benefits? I am using 10.4.2 at the moment so maybe I haven’t got the latest ones. I have a Dual 2 ghz G5 with 6.5 gb of Ram.
I know there was updates for OGL in 10.4.4, so maybe this is might fix the isssue. Can anyone confirm that they are able to use the more accurate capabilities with the 9800 card on a mac, and note their setup
regards
rich
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One thing I do know is that you need to be using 10.3.4 or above to take advantage of the Open GL 2.0 features.
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
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There seem to be issues with OpenGL2.0 AE7 and OSX.4.4 at the moment, we are using QuadraFX 4500 and have had to disable OpenGL in AE to improve performance. Adobe are talking to apple to resolve this issue.
Also Antialiasing and Motion Blur acceleration are not supported by the Apple drivers at the moment.
A bit disappointing but I’m sure it will be resolved soon enough
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We are also seeing the same thing with the ATI X800 & X850 cards
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Hi Stretch
Thanks for the reply. That’s very disappointing. It is really one area that I do feel short changed on with Macs. I use Cinema 4D and it too has low OGL benchmarks because of the poor OGL implementation in OSX. By the way what machine do you have?
So do you just switch OGL off and use adaptive resolution instead when using After Effects?
Again thanks for the heads up
regards
Richard
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Hi Richard,
The QuadraFX is on a G5 Quad 2.5, the X800 and X850 are on a Dual 2.5 and Dual 2.0 G5’s
Yes, we have switched to adaptive in AE7 for the time being, we are also still using AE6.5 for certain jobs
Cheers
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I read elsewhere that the ATI drivers are working for Mac, but Nvidia’s aren’t. I believe they are being updated thoughso maybe it’s worth a word to Nvidia
regards
Richard
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